Amazon Basin Exhibit...Suggestions?

hadrada

hadrada

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Ok im designing a zoo on paper.

One of the major exhibits is a 3 part biome consisting of West Africa,Birds Of The World and the Amazon basin.

I planned out the Amazon basin part today as far as the animals are concerned..tell me what you think...

Brown-Mantled Tamarin 3..Hoffman two-toed Sloth 1..[mixed]
Red Bellied Piranha 6
Schneider's/Smooth Bellied Dwarf Caiman 2
Yellow Spotted River Turtle 3..mixed with Caiman??
Amazon Tree Boa 1
Caldwells Poison Dart Frog 2
Splashback Poison Dart Frog 5
Yellow&Blue Poison Dart Frog 4

Any ideas for any other animals or any suggestions would be welcome.:)
 
If you are having an open area you could think about having some amazonian birds and insects (butterflies, etc.)
 
Giant otter, tapir, giant anteater, more primates and capybaras
 
I'd suggest having a few more different tamarins or marmosets in that mixed exhibit. :)
 
Piranhas look and do better in a larger shoal. If you only have room for half a dozen I'd suggest you look for smaller species. Angelfishes are nice (particularly altum angels) or some discus with a big shoal of cardinal tetras.

Alan
 
thinking you could do this:

Have like a big building, with the centre netted (you can guess why). make it like a circle shaped building with tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, reptiles, fish etc... and have the centre of it with hornbills and other birds...

If it is alot of open enclosure go for a walk through avairy with small species of birds, this than leads to 3 exhibits for hornbill, than a reptile house than smalls mammals than cats than tapir to top it off (pref malayan)
 
EvilKittie said:
thinking you could do this:

Have like a big building, with the centre netted (you can guess why). make it like a circle shaped building with tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, reptiles, fish etc... and have the centre of it with hornbills and other birds...

If it is alot of open enclosure go for a walk through avairy with small species of birds, this than leads to 3 exhibits for hornbill, than a reptile house than smalls mammals than cats than tapir to top it off (pref malayan)
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Hornbills come from sub tropical africa and asia NOT amazon
(neither do malayan tapir) :D
 
aa but you do find malayan tapirs in brazil ^^ (a zoo)

but otherwise they look nicer than their cousins.

and hornbills whoops XDDD
 
EvilKittie said:
aa but you do find malayan tapirs in brazil ^^ (a zoo)

but otherwise they look nicer than their cousins.

and hornbills whoops XDDD
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I'm confused, you find malayan tapirs in brazil in a zoo? if so, that does not make it part of amazon wildlife suitable foran amazon exhibit.

Or are you confused with mountain tapir :confused:
 
EvilKittie said:
but otherwise they look nicer than their cousins.
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And that is, of course, how zoos should judge which animals come into their collections. I can just imagine a zoo director telling his staff that a pair of snow leopards were planned for a new african savanna exhibit as they "look nicer" than their african counterparts!
 
lolz, which one is rarer in zoos? Malayan. Which one is found in the Amazon Barids. So for a amazon i would go for the bairds but with rainforest one malayan hands down
 
EvilKittie said:
lolz, which one is rarer in zoos? Malayan. Which one is found in the Amazon Barids. So for a amazon i would go for the bairds but with rainforest one malayan hands down
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That's like putting Asian lion in an African exhibit! Malayan may be rare but they dont come from the amazon, Hadrada asked for an AMAZON exhibit NOT a RAINFOREST exhibit.
 
EvilKittie said:
lolz, which one is rarer in zoos? Malayan. Which one is found in the Amazon Barids. So for a amazon i would go for the bairds but with rainforest one malayan hands down
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Brazilian Tapir do come from the Amazon basin (where the exhibit is supposed to represent) so why not just use them? The conservation issue is negligible - brazilians are, I believe, classed as vulnerable whilst malayans are endangered and I doubt the populations of either will, in the long run, be greatly effected by captive breeding / being displayed in an imaginary zoo. Your argument undermines the past thirty years of zoo evolution (try looking up "landscape immersion" on Google, it may be of interest).
 
Thanks for all the suggestions :)

I should have said in my OP that Cats,Tapir and Capybaras werent going to figure in the plans.[space issue].

Butterflies sounds a good idea,however i thought the Tamarins would have a field day with them :(

Ok, ive added Giant Otters[2],Black-Rumped Agouti[2],Mixed Exhibit.
Pied Tamarin [5]
Emerald Tree Boa [2]
Guianan Cock Of The Rock [1] and Blue Dacnis [3].
Ive upped the piranha to 10 individuals as i envisage quite a big tank.

I think i still need 2 more species of small birds also lizards,insects to go behind glass.

btw people, im going by the availability numbers of species through ISIS.

Thanks again.
 
hadrada said:
Butterflies sounds a good idea,however i thought the Tamarins would have a field day with them :(


Thanks again.
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Why don't you have a walk-through butterfly tunnel at the entrance/exit to the amazon building. It would keep them away from primates that way and would immerse people before entering the building.
 
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